Retoriando "La Neta": Cosechando Testimonios del Campo y Desahogos Laborales as Regenerative Rhetoric Pathways for Raza Obrer@ Performing La Talacha in Marginalized Laboral Spaces

Emic, phenomenological, and interdisciplinary, this study draws on and seeks to bring the fields of Sociopsychology and Rhetoric and Writing Studies into conversation to address the potential intracultural cognitive bias of raza obrer@ (RO), by raza non-obrer@ (RNO), throughout the Borderland (the El Paso/Juarez Region) through the strategic application of Regenerative Rhetoric. In this dissertation, I examine testimonios del campo (personal narratives from laboral spaces) and desahogos laborales (emotional laboral releases) of RO performing la talacha (arduous blue-collar work) within marginalized labor spaces utilizing Regenerative Rhetoric reparative discourse/dialectic strategies that spur sentipensamiento en la sudoracion (sensing and thinking within the emotional, laboral environment) to cosechar (harvest), retoriar (rhetorically navigate to synthesize) and, ultimately, arrive at "la neta" (the unbridled, organic truth of the oppressed). The findings of this study emphasize an existing intracultural cognitive bias amongst gente raza of/about RO that can be initiated to heal with Regenerative Rhetoric as a multidisciplinary application that allows rhetorical scholars a means to traverse into other academic fields to unmute and lift oppressed obrer@ voices. This study also highlights how rhetorical scholars can utilize Regenerative Rhetoric, by retoriando la neta, to better understanding the denigrating effects that social stratification (as a hierarchal framework of power and privilege) and cognitive dissonance (an internal sociopsychological discord) have on on the sociocultural values of gente raza share within/because of la obra (blue/brown-collar trades). This study also serves as a springboard for other viable veins of research that further Working-class Rhetoric investigations within the fields of Rhetoric and Writing Studies.